can i get someone to answer this question please.

DeadDOG

its on yahoo questions and answers and well i need to pick the best answer.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090421023224AAB5Hyu&r=w

What animal is the Writer talking about and who is he?

I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal,

and that she has no eye-lids—She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance.

—She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders:

She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage.

—As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth,

so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shewn and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible;

but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal:

—Conscious of this, she never wounds till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy,

and cautioned him against the danger of treading on her.

—Was I wrong, Sir, in thinking this a strong picture of the temper and conduct of America?

 

This mans words are also used in a Song by by Metallica

Don't Tread on Me

LYRICS:

Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail

Once you provoke her, rattling of her tail

Never begins it, never, but once engaged...

Never surrenders, showing the fangs of rage

 

Love it or live it, she with the deadly bite

Quick is the blue tongue, forked as lighting strike

Shining with brightness, always on surveillance

The eyes, they never close, emblem of vigilance

Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail

Once you provoke her, rattling on her tail

So be it

Threaten no more

To secure peace is to prepare for war

So be it

Settle the score

Touch me again for the words that you'll hear evermore...

Don't tread on me